It’s Time to End Zero Tolerance in Schools: A Call To Action
17 April 2011 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheIt is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms in the United States will lead to lasting improvements in student achievement.
More >Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
10 March 2011 | Posted by Gara LaMarche“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” - Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland
More >Keeping Memory Alive
3 February 2011 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheIt wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project. Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same room with one another.
More >Brick-by-Brick – Investing in Capital Projects for Social Change
20 December 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheThe business of making social change often has to start from the ground up. Sometimes literally!
More >It’s Time to Protect and Strengthen Social Security, Not Undermine It
30 November 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheMedia coverage that followed the release of Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson’s draft proposal earlier this month was, for many, the first public announcement that the fate of their Social Security benefits was even up for debate.
More >Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
27 October 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheThis column is adapted from Gara LaMarche's address with this title given recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
More >Celebrating Financial Reform in the U.S. – An Advance for Social Justice
26 August 2010 | Posted by Vivien LabatonVivien Labaton, Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies, reflects on the recent passage of financial reform in the United States and the activities of Atlantic grantees to help bring it about.
More >A “Life Course” Approach Breaks Down Silos to Strengthen Social Justice
29 July 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheI am just concluding almost a month working from Atlantic’s offices in Ireland. Among the many terrific experiences I’ve had was a visit to the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), where last week my colleagues and I met with the faculty of the Life Course Institute. The Institute, established with Atlantic’s support, is an innovative effort to advance an integrated approach to research on policy and services for older people, children and families, and people with disabilities.
More >New Senior Staff Hires Strengthen Atlantic for Social Justice Mission and Spending Down Assets
7 July 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheI don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final years. One joins us this week and all will be aboard by the end of summer.
More >Long Fought Human Rights Victories Show the Importance of Staying the Course
30 June 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheA core premise of Atlantic’s approach to philanthropy, underlying our plan to spend the foundation’s assets by the end of this decade, is that addressing issues now can prevent them from becoming larger, more serious challenges later. But investing now doesn’t always mean that change will come about quickly.
More >Changing the Story: Using the Arts to Advance Social Justice
27 May 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheIn the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life.
More >The Strengthening of Atlantic’s Social Justice Mission: What It Means for Our Funding
29 April 2010 | Posted by Gara LaMarcheI’ve just returned from Denver, Colorado, where the annual conference of the Council on Foundations ended Tuesday. A significant theme of the conference this year, which Atlantic helped to organise, was what foundations can do to advance social justice. I was honoured to moderate a panel of global activists and philanthropic leaders addressing this subject, which included Atlantic grantees Avila Kilmurray of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Constance Rice of the Advancement Project, and Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change.
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